katherine
soft tech & poetic tools • kayserifserif.place • she/her/伊
- Reposted by katherinePocket friends, things feel really bleak and hard right now, but we all need some joy to keep us going. Here is some joy: Paper Airplane magazine, aka Highlights for adults, is launching for-reals! paperairplane.pub#subscribe
- (ode to the default purple visited link color) how honest, like a sigh at the end of a day. like sweat on the brow and prints in the snow. don't posture to me with the eager blueness of a fresh link, but settle with me in the purple coming home.
- put down your paint. you were once strange to me, words draped across the entrance of a closed door. i passed through your threshold and felt an indelible kiss. we have tread the trails. we have ventured through it all, and what can we do now but sag into the change it has wrought.
- i wrote this post about generative AI for the Fathom blog! the short answer is no, we have no interest in using it, but hopefully the post provides some interesting insight into why and how it interferes with our work. www.fathom.info/notebook/260...
- ♦️ a new experiment in natural language parsing and play i finished a project! or at least, i finished a limited set of features and am excited to share it! feel free to play with it and let me know what you think :) 🔵🟩🔻 pattern.kayserifserif.place
- i also wrote a lot of words about it while waiting for domain issues to resolve! i always struggle with this part but am happy i was able to get out the thoughts while they're still fresh in my mind! pattern.kayserifserif.place/about/
- i finished a hat!! pattern: Classic Ribbed Hat by Purl Soho yarn: Deluxe Worsted Superwash by Universal Yarn this pattern led me to discover the joys of tubular cast-on and ribbing throughout the whole piece. so stretchy. so chonky. fits so well!! 🩷
- Reposted by katherineWe are beyond excited that our collaboration with the Sabeti Lab and IGH to develop an outbreak detection and response framework has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change grant! You can check out the announcement here: www.macfound.org/press/press-...
- Reposted by katherinehi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year? the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
- had the opportunity to speak with jonathan's class last week! he put together a very kind and helpful write-up if you are curious what i talked about :)
- this week, i was so fortunate to have @kayserifserif.place as a guest speaker in my user-centered design class! in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...
- Reposted by katherineHi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
- wrapped up a big project at work last week — our data exploration tool is now available as a desktop app! no subscription necessary, one-time payment, nothing gets sent to a server, open CSVs and Excel files as big as 10GB and have fun doing it :) more here: www.fathom.info/notebook/251...
- (Mac only for now, sorry, other platforms coming soon!)
- Reposted by katherineWe just launched a desktop version of Rowboat! * Open much larger files (offline!) * Own Desktop as a one-time purchase. * Use a double-clickable app that’s even faster than the web version. Browser or desktop, your data never leaves your machine. Read more: www.fathom.info/notebook/251...
- codeswitching mwah! so delicious to listen to
- 📝☁️ wrote about kathy wu's INTO UNCERTAIN WEATHERS for CultureHub: www.culturehub.org/read/what-is...
- work update - big new release for Rowboat (our data exploration tool)!! more official posts to come, but sharing here in the meantime :) buttondown.com/rowboat/arch...
- Reposted by katherineRogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible. If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.
- down a rabbit hole of watching game dev videos to build up inspo :)
- this one from @jesscodes.bsky.social was really fun to see how such a rich world is gradually imagined and created! excited to see how it continues to grow :) youtube.com/watch?v=GQyZ...
- i've also been going through @juniperdev.bsky.social's videos for the fun beginner-friendly dev resources, as well as the other delightfully silly ones youtube.com/watch?v=Ytyl...
- Reposted by katherinehumans sealed our fate when we started working with computers to design languages more and more like our own. the computers learned our grammar, our vocabulary, yes. but they learned our rhetoric, the malleability of meaning. we gave the machines our words, and they used them to lie.
- is it possible to search across posts from people i follow, or even mutual follows?
- wrote about HTML Day and how handmade websites give me hope! kayserifserif.place/posts/2025/h...
- this #HTMLDay in Boston, we gathered in the park and met a lot of cool people!! one very fun thing we did was hand-write a collaborative website on a big piece of paper. see the results here :) boston-html-day.neocities.org/collab thanks to everyone who came out! feeling grateful and inspired <3
- have some follow-up stuff i want to do from html day but things are busyyyy
- tomorrow! gathering some materials... ✳️
- cynthia and i are hosting an HTML Day in Boston!! Sat, Aug 2, 2025 3–5pm The Common at CX (Cambridge Crossing) learn/explore/write/play with HTML with us! <3 boston-html-day.neocities.org
- getting set up here at the picnic tables! nice shade, some snacks, lots to read and play with
- THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CAME, HOLY CRAP WHAT A GREAT TIME WITH EXTREMELY COOL PEOPLE
- resources here: YDATU @ethanmarcotte.com, How Git Works @b0rk.jvns.ca, incredible Learn to Code + Paris + Influence zine @alexandragallant.com, cute terminal zine by @sailorhg.com, Sunday Sites prompts (Tiana Dueck), and HTML Toronto Cookbook (Tiana, Ross, Garry)
- Reposted by katherineI wrote up a protocol for running art + activism events like Climate Change Crafting Night. We need more community, & we need people feeling empowered to take action and not just curl up in a despondent ball. Help them find the energy with art & community! Protocol: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- how do you find new video games to play? (indie/small/mid-size)
- cynthia and i are hosting an HTML Day in Boston!! Sat, Aug 2, 2025 3–5pm The Common at CX (Cambridge Crossing) learn/explore/write/play with HTML with us! <3 boston-html-day.neocities.org
- Reposted by katherinegood website drawafish.com
- wow, seeing this video got me so excited!! <3 "YES there are a million how to start gamedev videos out there already but has anyone made one about the games YOU like???? mhm that's what I thought." oh, right in the heart! thank you Terry from Cute Games Club! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmf...
- Reposted by katherinebtw i’m speaking about taking your internet back from corporations at bristol's incredible @webdevconf.com on october 10th :) very stacked conf lineup, very evil talk, very mysterious talk, come thru. get your boss to get your ticket and i'll see you in october! webdevconf.com
- i made a web site just for fun!! it is about the cute cars i see everyday!! WOO cutecars.neocities.org
- Reposted by katherineIn between our other projects, we continue working on Rowboat, our tool for instantly making sense of very large datasets. Lots of this work has been led by @kayserifserif.place who just wrote up several of the new features: fathom.info/notebook/250...
- Reposted by katherineI spent the holiday weekend coming to grips with the Eleventy SSG as a non-dev with rudimentary skills. I documented my journey and tried to do what I hadn't seen done elsewhere: actually explain the darn thing. I warmed up to it after a while. A bit. skep.place/misc/eleventy/ @11ty.dev #smallweb
- Tiny Awards are open for nominations! ⚘ the past two winners were One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv/) and Rotating Sandwiches (rotatingsandwiches.com/) nominate a site for "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" here: tinyawards.net
- 📝 i find it interesting and helpful to imagine a framing through which to talk about the myriad but rhyming ideas i'm interested in. wrote about this latest framing :) kayserifserif.place/posts/2025/c...
